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with hair, the 3rd naked ; maxillary palpi filiform ; tibiae of male 

 with the outer spurs minute ; abdomen with the anal tuft very- 

 large. Tore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from close to angle of cell ; 

 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9 for some distance ; 10 also 

 approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle 

 of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Sect. I. Antennse of male unipunctate for one-third length, the 

 basal joint emitting four teeth enclosing a hollow in front like 

 the calyx of a flower. 



Type. (l)tMEROCTEisrA tullalis "Wlk. xviii. 649 ; Hrapsn. 111. Het. ix. 

 pi. 172. f. 11. Indian & Malayan subregions. 



(2) Meroctena staintoxi Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 392, 

 pi. 13. f . 4. Pulo Laut ; Java ; Fiji. 



fLygropis sirioxantha Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 262. 



Sect. II. Antennse of male with the basal half serrate and fasci- 

 culate, a large tuft of scales on upperside at one-fifth from 

 base ; palpi with the 3rd joint short, flattened, rounded, the 

 outer side hollowed out and curled over at tip. 



(3)tMER0CTENA DicHocHROSiALis, n. sp. (1898, Plate L. fig. 22.) 



c? . Orange ; fore tibise with black band ; abdomen with two 

 conjoined dorsal black spots on subbasal segment and dorsal band 

 on subterminal segment with silvery-white posterior edge. Fore 

 wing with black spot at base of costa ; an antemedial black line 

 expanding into a ^pot on costa ; a discoidal lunule ; the postmedial 

 line represented by an oblique straight line from costa to vein 5, 

 a subterminal spot ou vein 4 and small spot below vein 2, and a 

 large spot near base of vein 2. Hind wing with large lunule 

 beyond to cell ; a subterminal spot between veins 2 and 4 and an 

 oblique line from near lower angle of cell becoming obsolete before 

 tornus ; both wings with fine terminal line. 



Hab. Bali, 2500 feet {Doherty). Exp. 30 mm. 



Genus 92. Thliptocebas. 



Thliptoceras Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 274. 



Prophantis Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 113 (1896). 



Palpi porrect, straight, about twice the length of head, the 2nd 



Thliptoceras cascale, S . \. (From Moths Ind. vol. i v.) 



